ungloved

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ gloved.

Adjective

ungloved (not comparable)

  1. Not wearing a glove; barehanded.
    Hold the bottle with the gloved hand and unscrew the top with the ungloved hand.
    • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter VII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., , →OCLC, page 105:
      Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold: we had no boots, the snow got into our shoes and melted there; our ungloved hands became numbed and covered with chilblains, as were our feet []
    • 1975, James Patrick Donleavy, The unexpurgated code: a complete manual of survival and manners:
      Keep your dignity here even though other folk are expending any amount of piranhic energy implanting their ungloved lunch hooks into the property left by another.